10 Comic Book Characters You DIDN’T Know Were Getting Movies
Which of these comic book movies are you most excited for?
Comic book movies are, without any shadow of a doubt, THE big thing in Hollywood right now – and everyone wants to get in on the action. We all love the movies Marvel are putting out (whether it be Disney/Marvel Studios with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or Fox with the X-Men movies) and DC’s aren’t too bad on the whole either (Wonder Woman, for example, was fantastic), but we’re all familiar with those – and indeed we’re all familiar with the upcoming offerings from both companies. Pretty much everyone knows that Spawn (Image) and Hellboy (Dark Horse) are being rebooted on the big screen too (with Jamie Foxx and David Harbour starring as the titular characters respectively) – and we’re really excited about those – but there are definitely some movies about comic book characters that you didn’t know were on the way in the near future! In this video, we’re going to take a look at just a few of them! Some of them are reboots, some of them are sequels and some of them will be all new to the big screen! The characters in question are; The Crow, Green Hornet, Invincible, Flash Gordon, The Toxic Avenger, Malignant Man, Bloodshot, The Plutonian, The Rocketeer, and The Shadow. Which ones are you the most excited about? We hope you enjoy this video. Please leave a comment letting us know exactly what you thought of it. And don’t forget to subscribe to Screen Rant’s YouTube channel, so you never miss our great new video uploads in the future.
The Shadow is the name of a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of media, and it is also used to refer to the character featured in The Shadow media.[2] One of the most famous adventure heroes of the 20th century United States, the Shadow has been featured on the radio, in a long-running pulp magazine series, in American comic books, comic strips, television, serials, video games, and at least five films. The radio drama included episodes voiced by Orson Welles.
Originally simply a mysterious radio narrator who hosted a program designed to promote magazine sales for Street and Smith Publications, The Shadow was developed into a distinctive literary character, later to become a pop culture icon, by writer Walter B. Gibson in 1931. The character has been cited as a major influence on the subsequent evolution of comic book superheroes, particularly Batman.[3]
The Shadow debuted on July 31, 1930, as the mysterious narrator of the Street and Smith radio program Detective Story Hour, which was developed in an effort to boost sales of Detective Story Magazine.[4] When listeners of the program began asking at newsstands for copies of “That Shadow detective magazine,” Street & Smith decided to create a magazine based around The Shadow and hired Gibson to create a character concept to fit the name and voice and write a story featuring him. The first issue of The Shadow Magazine went on sale on April 1, 1931, a pulp series.
On September 26, 1937, The Shadow radio drama, a new radio series based on the character as created by Gibson for the pulp magazine, premiered with the story “The Death House Rescue,” in which The Shadow was characterized as having “the power to cloud men’s minds so they cannot see him.” As in the magazine stories, The Shadow was not given the literal ability to become invisible.
The introduction from The Shadow radio program “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!”, spoken by actor Frank Readick Jr, has earned a place in the American idiom. These words were accompanied by an ominous laugh and a musical theme, Camille Saint-Saëns‘ Le Rouet d’Omphale (“Omphale’s Spinning Wheel”, composed in 1872). At the end of each episode The Shadow reminded listeners that, “The weed of crime bears bitter fruit! Crime does not pay…The Shadow knows!” (Some early episodes, however, used the alternate statement, “As you sow evil, so shall you reap evil! Crime does not pay…The Shadow knows!”)
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